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until the pips squeak

phrase

Etymology

Originally coined by the First Lord of the Admiralty and Unionist election candidate Eric Geddes in an election promise to "squeeze the German lemon until the pips squeak", made during a speech in Cambridge on 10 December 1918 and reported the next day by the Cambridge Daily News.

  1. derived from lemon until the pips squeak"

Definitions

  1. Until the maximum amount has been extracted.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA